]]>https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/mapping-the-cloud-in-immaterials-light-painting-wifi/feed/0joygreggWhat Does the MFA Boom Mean for Print Books?https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/what-does-the-mfa-boom-mean-for-print-books/
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the article: “We
sell FAR more e-books that also have print counterparts than we do books that
are only available in electronic format…The perceived value of a book
that is in electronic and print formats is higher than one that’s a just a
throwaway, 99-cent e-book.” In other words, if vanity doesn’t keep authors
invested in print books, economic self-interest will. All that might seem
trivial, until you realize that the number of would-be authors in America is
skyrocketing—particularly among the younger generation. The number of
degree-granting U.S. creative writing programs has exploded from 79 to 854 in
the past 35 years. The average age of students starting these programs is twenty-six.
I’m lucky enough to be a student in one myself, and can attest anecdotally that
the goal of nearly every writer pursuing this degree is to see his or her words
realized in print book form]

]]>https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/what-does-the-mfa-boom-mean-for-print-books/feed/0joygreggBibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of “Rights” in Digital Collection Buildinghttps://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/bibliographic-indeterminacy-and-the-scale-of-problems-and-opportunities-of-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-in-digital-collection-building/
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and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of “Rights” in Digital Collection
Building

]]>https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/bibliographic-indeterminacy-and-the-scale-of-problems-and-opportunities-of-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-in-digital-collection-building/feed/0joygreggLibrary Piratehttps://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/library-pirate/
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to the LibraryPirate.me We are the internet’s largest collection

]]>https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/library-pirate/feed/0joygreggA Different Kind of Secret Codehttps://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/a-different-kind-of-secret-code/
https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/a-different-kind-of-secret-code/#respondThu, 06 Oct 2011 20:52:16 +0000http://technologyemails.wordpress.com/?p=128Continue reading →]]>[From
the article: Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using
bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. In addition
to being useful to spies, the new technique could also allow companies to
encode secret identifiers into crops, seeds, or other living commodities. The
new glowing bacteria actually did grow out of a bit of cloak-and-dagger
thinking. Several years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
asked researchers to submit ideas for ways to encode secret messages without
the need for electronics. At the time David Walt, a chemist at Tufts University
in Medford, Massachusetts, teamed up with his former adviser George Whitesides,
a chemist at Harvard University. Together, they came up with a way to add a
variety of metal salts to a fuse that, when lit, would give off a sequence of
pulses of infrared light that encoded a message. That got them thinking about
other ways to accomplish the same thing. And so last year they decided to try
something else, using bacteria to encode their secrets.]

]]>https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/a-different-kind-of-secret-code/feed/0joygreggDeep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earthhttps://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/deep-future-the-next-100000-years-of-life-on-earth/
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Earth [Kindle
Edition]

]]>https://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/nec-launches-led-illuminated-portable-projector/feed/0joygreggUC San Diego Gets Big Picture with ‘OptIPortable’ Video Wallshttps://technologyemails.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/uc-san-diego-gets-big-picture-with-optiportable-video-walls/
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researchers and their students to take their collaboration capability to a new
level and has challenged them to explore new areas of information technology
with a completely immersive mixed media environment,” said Thomas DeFanti,
director of visualization for Calit2.

Calit2,
which brings together technology research with a focus on applications, refers
to these wall-sized visualization facilities or clusters as
“OptIPortables.” First installed in March 2010 at UCSD using 32 NEC X462UN displays
and then elsewhere at its partner institutions around the world, the Institute
uses the video walls to allow simultaneous video conferencing and visualization
of large-sized data sets. …According to DeFanti, NEC displays have been used
because “they consistently offered the narrowest bezels we could purchase
at the time, a critical issue for viewing super-high-resolution imagery.”
Also, he added, NEC has displays in the sizes the Institute needs. More
recently, the display shopping list has added the requirements of LED
backlighting and 2D and 3D collaboration capabilities.]UC San Diego
Gets Big Picture with ‘OptIPortable’ Video Walls

The University of California,
San Diego (UCSD) has decided that more and bigger is better, especially for
immersive experiences. The university is building out its collection of virtual
rooms that use multiple large-screens for visualization.

Amazon has confirmed it is entering the tablet business, unveiling the Kindle Fire at a press event in New York on Wednesday. The device will include a 7-inch color display, Wi-Fi support, weigh 14.6 ounces and run on …

See also announcement of 2 new, additional Kindles (Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G) at http://www.amazon.com/

“Prestigious
US academic institution Princeton University has banned researchers from giving
the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain
cases where a waiver may be granted. The new rule is part of an Open Access
policy aimed at broadening the reach of their scholarly work and encouraging
publishers to adjust standard contracts that commonly require exclusive
copyright as a condition of publication.”